Sentence examples for they were afflicted from inspiring English sources

A law that year prohibited any openly gay foreigners from coming to live in the United States on the grounds that they were afflicted with a "psychopathic personality".

Recognising that his patients had special needs, within two years he had established an evening clinic to cater for the "artisan classes" who risked dismissal from their employment if "it were known they were afflicted with a skin disease".

For instance, in a recent experiment conducted by Ingber's lab, when a set of the lungs-on-a-chip that could "breathe" were dosed with the cancer medication interleukin-2, they were afflicted by a well-documented side effect of the medication in humans, severe pulmonary edema; only mild symptoms appeared in a model of the lungs-on-a-chip that didn't breathe.

The pain attacks occurred predominantly at the time they felt fatigued and at the time they were afflicted by a cold with or without fever.

Miss Goldie added: "I can still remember the days when people lived in monolithic council house schemes - that is what they were called - and they were afflicted by a postcode prejudice.

So when new laws were brought in which forced nuns to do away with personal servants and make their own food and drinks, their intake of cacao was "greatly diminished" and they were afflicted by hysterical attacks.

To assume that the afflicted will be touchy kill-joys, just because they're afflicted, might be considered insulting.

They are afflicted with what I call the Flaw-O-Matic(TM).

Ultimately, the resource curse is less something they are afflicted with than something they have inflicted on themselves.

But mostly she's soliciting views on whether men feel they are afflicted by the same struggles.

They are afflicted with all stages of the disease, ranging from suspected tumors to benign tumors to malignant growths.